Jensen Huang after Nvidia: What will he do next?

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His biographer Stephen Witt wonders whether the former tech chief can – or even wants to – lead again

His biographer Stephen Witt wonders whether the former tech chief can – or even wants to – lead again

[SINGAPORE] At 63, Jensen Huang may no longer have it in him to start or lead another tech company, speculates Stephen Witt, who wrote Huang’s best-selling biography The Thinking Machine in 2025.

Here for the Singapore Writers Festival, Witt says: “In the time that I was with him, I saw him slow down just a step. That’s just age. It’s time. It happens.”

Witt worked on the book over several months, speaking with Huang as well as over 200 employees, customers, rivals and friends. The book built a picture of a brilliant, demanding workaholic who had made Nvidia the centre of his life.

“But I just don’t know if he can be a CEO again or if he wants to be a CEO again,” Witt tells the festival audience in his keynote speech at Victoria Theatre. “I think his motivation might be shot after this.”

Huang’s next task will probably be more personal: trying to save his marriage. Witt says: “I think he will beg his wife not to divorce him.”

Although Huang had lovers, including businesswoman Alice Huang and Nvidia’s vice-president of healthcare Kimberly Powell, his love for his wife was genuine, Witt suggests.

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“Jensen talked about his wife all the time. All the time. He praised her constantly,” Witt says. “He never overlooked that sacrifice she made (leaving engineering to raise their two children). He acknowledged it constantly in conversation.”

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